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Chapter 54 – Muddy Waters

(In Emily's car)

Wayne was driving the car of her daughter as Emily was driving Alison's minivan with her family on it. The Fields left before the girls from the competition and they both were discussing the events of that night…

The Radio on the car. – "Good night, everyone, please note that it looks like a storm is coming, there's flooding everywhere, please be careful and stay at home…"

Wayne. – "This rain is starting to appear as a storm… I can barely see the road…"

Pam didn't say anything as she was lost on her thoughts; Wayne looked at the lost look of her wife…

Wayne. – "What are you thinking?"

Pam sighed. – "I'm just thinking on Emy, why she didn't tell us that she wasn't working as a coach?" (Sighs) "I will play a visit to that Principal; it's unfair what he's doing to my Emy…"

Wayne chuckled seeing the protective side of her wife…

Wayne. – "I don't think that you should intervene on this, if Emy didn't say anything maybe it was because she wanted to handle it by herself…"

Pam was gonna to say something when her phone started to ring; she looked worried when she picked up the call…

Wayne asked. – "What is wrong?"

Pam squeezed Wayne's arm and said with a lot of concern. – "Turn away! We need to go back!"

Wayne. – "What? Why?!"

Pam. – "It was Ali, I couldn't hear well, she was trying to tell me something with despair, a lot of interference was on the call but something is wrong so turn the car and let's go back! I've a bad feeling…"

Wayne didn't argue with her wife and turned the wheels and took the same road but in the contrary sense in order to go back, towards the girls…

(In the river)

*** Music background: Anger by Sleeping at last***

There were thunders rumbling and the rain didn't stop; the minivan, Toyota Sienna of Alison dropped to the river, with all the family Fields-DiLaurentis in it…

Alison panicked. – "Em! Boys! Oh, my God, mermaid! Wayne! Enzo! Ollie! We're sinking! We're gonna drown!"

Emily took off her belt seat and cupped Alison's cheeks with her hands and forced Alison to look at her as she said…

Emily. – "No, no, no, we're not sinking… you need to calm down, it looks like the car's on the bottom…"

The car wasn't moving, half of the car, the upper side from the windows to the roof was free of water; just the lower part was under the river but the impact with the barrier of the edge of the bridge in the moment that the car flew up to the river, it broke the windshield, they were without windshield…

Alison. – "Are you sure?!"

Emily looked at her sides and nodded. – "Yeah… I'm sure… and it looks like the water won't rise that fast, so just calm down ok…"

Alison sighed and nodded; Emily said as she caressed Alison's face. – "Are you ok?!

Alison nodded with shaking movements. – "I think so… what about the boys?!"

Both girls looked to their boys, they were crying but they looked unharmed…

Alison said to her boys as she waved her hands to them. – "Sshh… it will be ok boys… ok…. It's gonna be ok…"

Emily said with concerning looking at her wife. – "Are you sure you're not hurt?"

Alison nodded. – "Yeah, I'm not hurt…'

Alison caressed Emily's face and said with concern. – "Love, you've got a really good gash on your head…"

Emily. – "I'm ok, don't worry about me…"

Emily sighed. – "Mmm… Who did you call just a minute before?"

Alison. – "To your mom, I don't know if she was able to hear me before my phone got shut…"

Emily exhaled sharply. – "Let's hope she did…" (Sighs) "We should get out of here…"

Alison said as she was trying to take off her belt seat. – "I think that I'm stuck, I can't take it off…."

Emily said as she was trying to take off the belt seat of her wife. – "Let me help you…" (Sighs) "Damn it! I can't take it off!"

(Baby crying)

Alison turned towards her boys and said. – "No, no, no crying boys, it's gonna be ok…"

The blonde started to sing a lullaby to her boys and the boys started to calm down; Emily just looked at her wife, singing to her boys and smiled. The boys stopped crying and both girls looked relieved, seeing the boys more calmed down: Emily grabbed Alison's hand and the blonde looked at her wife…

Emily said with watery-eyes. – "I'm sorry about earlier…"

Alison smiled and caressed Emily's cheek and said. – "Sshh, I'm sorry; I got us in a fight over something dumb…"

Emily. – "No, it's not dumb… I should have told you before… I'm sorry… I shouldn't be driving so fast… I should have listened to you… I'm sorry… I'm stubborn and stupid sometimes…"

Alison. – "You're not stupid, I'm sorry, I got mad for nothing important…"

Both girls looked at each other with lovely eyes and leaned for a soft kiss on the lips; they leant their front-head together…

Alison. – "I love you…"

Emily smiled. – "Me too… I will get you out of here… we're gonna be ok… I promise…" (She started trying to force the belt seat and said) "I just need to get you free of this!" (Sighs) "It's stuck… I need something to lever it maybe…"

Alison. – "A crowbar would help?"

Emily. – "I think it will… do you have one here?"

Alison. – "Yeah, in the bottom of the car, close to the spare tire…"

Emily. – "Ok, don't move, I will look for it…"

Alison chuckled. – "Em, where I could go…? I'm stuck here… remember?"

Emily chuckled and nodded. – "I know… sorry…"

Emily crawled on the back of the car, she caressed her boys; the boys smiled feeling the touch of her mommy; the brunette could stretch her arm to the back of the seat of the boys and took the crowbar…

Emily smiled. – "I've it!"

(Water rushing)

Alison. – "Em, can you hear that? What's that noise?!" (Water rushing) "What is it? OMG, Em!"

(Shieks)

The water started to rush in the car very fast as the car was without windshield; Emily quickly crawled beside Alison's seat and started trying to take off the belt seat with the help of the crowbar. With the water rushing inside, both girls started grunting…

Alison. – "Ow!" (Grunting and thunder rumbles) "What's happening?!

Emily sighed. – "It's the levee! I got to get you out now!" (Grunting and groaning)

Alison. – "Ohh! We're gonna drown! Emily!"

Emily said as she continued trying to force the belt seat off. – "I can get you out!" (Sighs) "I can do it! Just hold on!"

Alison looked to the water running inside the car, she turned towards her boys and she noticed that the water inside the car was getting to cover until the legs of the boys; Oliver started to cry, feeling the water close to his body, he was the only one between the three boys that didn't like the water…

Alison said as she was looking towards her boys. – "Mermaid… our boys…"

Emily looked by the corner of her eye towards the little boys, she gulped hard seeing the water mounting inside the car but the brunette was determined to liberate her wife before doing anything else so Emily continued trying to get Alison free from the belt seat.

Alison. – "Em…"

Emily. – "I can do it! Just hold on!"

Alison. – "Em you need to stop…"

Emily yelled. – "No! I will not stop! I can do it! I can get it!"

Alison's eyes got bigger of shock as she saw that the water was already covering her boys until their bellies; the blonde grabbed Emily from the arms and shook her; Emily stopped forcing the belt seat of Alison and she looked at her wife with a lot of fear, Emily already knew what Alison was gonna say to her but she didn't want to hear it…

*** Music background: Where's my love by SYML***

Alison. – "Emily, you need to stop focusing on me and focus on our boys… you need to help them…"

Emily said with watery-eyes. – "I need to get you free first… I can do it… I can…"

(Boys crying)

Alison looked to the boys and said to them. – "Don't worry boys, mommy will get you out of here… you will be ok…" (She looked towards Emily and said to the brunette) "Okay? Promise… Help them… they're just little boys Em… they are our little boys…" (Tears) "You need to take them out of here now!"

(Water rushing)

Emily looked to her boys, to her wife and to the water rushing inside the car, she felt heartbroken under the decision that Alison was making for them…

Emily said with tears. – "I-I-I can get you out, Ali!"

Alison cupped Emily's cheeks with her hands and forced Emily to see her into the eyes; Alison approached their faces very close, just millimeters of distance between them…

Alison begged. – "Mermaid, save them… please…"

(Water rushing)

Emily shook her head and said with a breaking voice. – "I can get you out of here… I've to…"

Alison leaned their front-head together and said with breaking voice. – "Please Emily! There is not time! Don't worry about me, just take care of our boys, save them Em… please…" (Tears) "Emily, save them first, they love you and so do I…"

(Water rushing)

Emily cried. – "I'm not gonna leave you! There's no way I'm leaving you here!"

Alison cleared the tears of her wife and said to her with a soother voice. – "I know… you're not leaving me, you're just saving them first… please Em, there is not time to waste! You need to take them out! NOW!" (Alison pushed Emily towards the boys and yelled) "Go! Go!" (Emily looked at her and Alison smiled and said to her wife) "It's gonna be ok mermaid… just take them out, please, don't let them drown…"

Emily saw the blue eyes of her wife and she took a deep breath, understanding what Alison was asking her to do; the brunette nodded with tears on her eyes, she quickly rushed towards her crying boys…

Emily said to the boys as she was taking off the belt seats from them. – "Ssshhh… It's gonna be ok…"

The brunette liberated the boys from their chairs, she passed Oliver to Alison and the blonde hugged him tight against her body, the boy calmed down…

Alison. – "Don't cry Ollie..." (Kisses) "It's just water, you're gonna be ok… mommy will save you" (Kisses)

Emily put too the other boys on Alison's lap, the blonde hugged them with a lot of love and putting a lot of kisses on their faces, afraid that it may be the last time that she would see them... the brunette crawled out of the car from the hole of the windshield; the water continued rushing inside the car and against the flow of the water, Emily kneeled on the hood of the car as Alison was passing her, the boys, one by one…

Alison sighed. – "You can swim with the three of them right?!"

Emily nodded. – "Yeah, don't worry… nothing bad will happen to them…"

Wayne was the best swimmer between the three so Emily put him in her back and instructed to the boy to grip on Emily's neck and hugger her neck very tight and just swim with his legs; the little Wayne understood and he just hugged Emily from the neck very tight…

Emily smiled to Wayne. – "That's my boy…" (She said to Enzo) "You too Enzo, you need to grip on me and not let go ok?"

Enzo nodded and he gripped on Emily's clothes from the front of the brunette. Just Oliver was still on Alison's lap, the little boy was refusing to let go from the blonde…

(Grunts, water rushing)

Alison. – "Ollie, please, go with mommy…"

Oliver cried. – "No! Mama!"

Alison hugged Oliver and kissed his head and said to him. – "Ollie! I love you! So you're going with mommy! Now!"

The blonde pushed Oliver away from her and towards Emily, the brunette grabbed him…

Oliver cried. – "Mama!"

Alison said with tears. – "It's gonna be ok…"

With Wayne on her back, Emily grabbed the other two boys with one arm, she started to swim with just her legs and one arm…

Emily. – "Wayne! Enzo! Ollie! Don't let go of me ok! Just grip tight!"

The boys gripped on her mother as instructed and they tried to help, kicking their little legs for impulse; it took them a little of time but they made it to the edge of the river; Emily crawled and she didn't stop until putting her boys on solid ground.

Emily said as she looked to her boys. – "Boys… are you ok?"

The boys were fine, scared but fine; they sat on the ground and Oliver cried looking to the car from the distance, the little boy stretched his arms, pointing out toward the car that was being covert by water…

Oliver cried. – "Mama! Mama! Mama!"

Emily looked too towards the river, tears were falling from her eyes and then she shook her head, she stood up and grabbed her three boys with her…

Emily. – "Hold on Ali…" (She grabbed the crying Oliver on her arms and makes the other two boys to walk at her side) "Come on boys, I need to put you in a safe place and go back for mama…"

As Emily and the boys were safe on solid ground; Alison continued inside the car, she was forcing the belt seat with the crowbar…

Alison. – "Come on! Come on!"

(Thunder crashes, grunts)

The water was already at the level of Alison's neck; with the force of the current; Alison lost from her hands the crowbar…

Alison. – "No!" (She saw under the water) "Where's the crowbar?! Where is it?!" (Grunts, gasping) "Come on! Please! God!" (The water continued mounting; Alison stretched her head up towards the little gap of free air that was on the top of the car, as the water continued filling the car) "Oh God! This isn't happening! This isn't happening!"

Just centimeters of free air were inside the car; Alison stretched her mouth and nose against the top of the car, trying to fill her lungs with all the air that she could take… Alison said as she was completed under water, no space of air to breathe…

Alison (painting). – "Emily… I love you…"

Emily made it to the bridge again; she was hopping that one car would pass by and she could find some help; it was in that moment that Emily started to wave her hands when she saw lights of a car approaching…

Emily screamed. – "Stop! Stop! Stop! PLEASE!"

The car stopped, meters of distance from the brunette and the doors opened…

Pam. – "Emmy?!"

Emily. – "Mom!"

The Fields ran towards Emily and they hugged; Emily quickly broke the hug as there was no time to waste; she put her boys on the arms of her parents…

Pam. – "Emmy?! What happen?! Where is Ali?!"

Emily. – "Dad! Do you have a knife pocket with you?"

Wayne nodded and gave it to the brunette, as soon as Emily took the knife pocket on her hands; she ran towards the edge of the bridge and jumped…

Pam. – "Emily!"

Emily swam towards the car that was completely drown; she got inside the car and gasps came from her mouth with big eyes as she saw Alison completely unconscious without a sign of breathing…

Emily. – "NOOO! No Ali! NOOO!"

The brunette kissed her wife under water, trying to communicate a little of air with the kiss, but the blonde didn't react with the kiss…

As Emily was under water, trying to safe her wife; the Fields were putting the boys, safe, inside the car…

Wayne said to her wife. – "Stay inside the car with the boys…"

Pam was covering the boys with a warm blanket, the boys curled on their grandma on the back seat of the car as their granpa was looking for a lantern on the car…

Pam said. – "I'm calling 911…"

Wayne nodded. – "Yeah, I will try to help Emmy…"

*** Music background: Metric by Gold Guns Girls (Acoustic version) ***

From the mutter waters of the river, Emily re-emerged, holding her unconscious wife on her arms; Emily swam them out of the river, once on solid ground; Emily lied down Alison against the ground…

(Rain and thunder crashes)

Emily was breathing heavily and trying to wake up Alison. – "Come on babe, come on, I need you to wake up…" (Tears and breaking voice) "Please…" (Emily started to do CPR on Alison) "Come on Ali, come back to me…" (Exhales) "Come on! Come on! Alison! Breathe!" (Breaking voice) "Come on babe, breathe…" (Tears) "Please, breathe…"

Emily leaned her ear on Alison's chest but she could not hear anything, no heart beat; no breathing…

Emily screamed with tears as she continued doing the CPR. – "Come on Ali! Breathe!" (Exhales) "Ali! Breathe! Come on!" (Tears) "Don't do this to me, babe! Don't do this to our boys! Please!" (Exhales) "Come back to me! ALISON!"

(Thunder rumbles)

Emily was doing the CPR on Alison for several minutes, but the blonde continued without responding to it and that was just making Emily's heart crack on pieces…

Emily yelled. – "Come on Ali! Breathe!" (Crying, sobbing) "Come on! Live! Please! Live! I need you! We need you!"

Wayne approached towards Emily with a lantern…

Wayne. – "Emmy…"

Emily cried, looking towards her Dad. – "I-I-I can't make her breathe…"

Wayne slowly approached and rubbed Emily's back as he said. – "Emmy… how long…" (Gulps) "Maybe you should stop…"

Emily shook her head and cried as she continued pushing her hands against Alison's chest, following the rhythm of her own heart in order to make Alison's heart pump…

Emily cried. – "I can't stop! I will not stop! She has to come back to ME! She has to breathe! She can't let me alone!" (Tears) "She can't!" (Crying sobbing) "She said that everything would be ok! She promised!"

Wayne. – "Emmy…"

Emily.- "No!" (She continued doing CPR) "I will not stop! Come on Ali! Come on! Breathe! Live!" (Emily raised her fist very high and threw it against Alison's chest) "Come on! Breathe!" (Yelling, crying) "I said BREATHE!"

Without any reaction on the blonde, Wayne hugged his daughter, making her to stop her efforts; Emily just cried louder and louder, lamenting, she leaned her head against Wayne's chest and she was crying when Alison coughed water out of her mouth; Emily let out gasps of happiness from her mouth and she quickly pull close to the blonde…

Emily. – "Yeah babe, that's it! Breathe!"

Alison slowly opened her eyes and Emily smiled seeing those blue eyes once again; Alison coughed and Emily just grabbed her between her arms; Emily hugged her tight and kissed her head a million of times…

Emily cried. – "Oh Ali…" (Wheezing) "Breathe, please, never stop breathing… never…"

Alison was breathless to speak; she just curled on Emily and hugged her tight…

(In the hospital of Rosewood)

It was past midnight when the girls ran on the hallways of the hospital; they hugged Emily as soon as they saw her…

Hanna. – "How are you?"

Emily sighed. – "Alive…"

Spencer. – "The boys?!"

Emily. – "Blair is checking them, they look fine but I prefer that Blair checked if they're really ok…"

Hanna. – "What about Ali?"

Emily sighed. – "She's resting in a room, she's on oxygen right now…" (Gulps and tears) "I-I almost lost her tonight… all of them…"

The girls hugged Emily in order to make her feel comfortable.

Spencer. – "Can I come in? I would like to see her, Ali, she almost died and I-I can stop thinking that our discussion during the dinner at my house… it could have been our 'last talk'… and I would like to see her… I just need to do it…."

Emily nodded. – "Ok, yeah… she can't talk right now with the mask on her face but she can definitely hear you…"

Spencer nodded and gave her a weak smile and got inside Alison's room; as Spencer got in, Emily and Hanna were talking…

Emily. – "And Aria?"

Hanna sighed and she explained to Emily that she wasn't the only one who got hurt that night, Aria suffered an incident too, she was on the hospital getting treated; Aria and Hanna were doing a little party as 'bachelor party' for Aria's mom, since she was going to re-marry Aria's Dad, during the event that they organized in the loft of Hanna in Rosewood, the fireplace got turned on in a mysterious way and burned Aria's arm, gladly it wasn't any serious but she got in the hospital for it. Because of the car accident, Emily didn't see the last text that the mysterious –A sent them, Hanna showed it to Emily and the brunette just got really mad, mad with this new threat of this bastard and mad with herself, for putting her family in a risky situation. Hanna did her best to calm her down and both were to make a visit on Aria as Spencer was with Alison. Once they got into Aria's room, they saw Erza inside with Aria and he left as the girls and Liam arrived at the same time…

Liam. – "I will let you catch up with your friends Aria… I will be back ok…"

Aria nodded and saw her boyfriend left; the girls were talking about the events of that night and the last text that they received…

Aria sighed. – "I told you… pissed them off wasn't a good idea…"

Hanna sighed. – "So now what?"

Emily sighed. – "I don't know… I really don't know… if anything this looks like a team thing, I don't think that this new '-A' is just one person…"

The other girls nodded in agreement; the girls continued talking but clues of what to do next. They decided to don't act until find any proof of who could really be behind everything. Aria didn't need to stay that night in the hospital so Hanna and Liam left with her, that same night, the Fields took the boys with them as Emily stood in the hospital beside her wife. During the night, Alison slowly opened her eyes and turned around; she smiled seeing that her wife was at her side; the blonde tried to take off the oxygen mask and Emily quickly stood up and tried to stop her…

Emily sighed. – "Don't do that… the doctor said that you need it…"

Alison sighed. – "I'm ok…" (She took off the mask in order to speak) "The boys?!"

Emily caressed Alison's face and sat on the bed of the hospital as she said. – "They're ok… they're staying with my parents… don't worry about them… they're safe…"

Alison took a deep breath of relief and smiled; Alison was under the point to fall sleep again but she stopped, hearing some snobs coming from her wife; she raised an eye brow and looked concerned when she saw Emily crying…

Alison. – "What is wrong?!"

Emily cried louder and Alison got more worried, she sat on bed and approached to her wife, Alison's hand cupped Emily's cheek and the brunette just gripped on Alison's hand…

Alison sighed. – "Please Emily, talk with me… what's it?!

Emily crying

Alison. – "Mermaid… please… talk with me… you look scared… what is it?!"

Emily yelled with tears on her eyes as she looked at Alison into the eyes. – "You almost died again! You freakin stop breathing! You can't do that! Giving me instructions to leave you behind!" (Exhales) "Yeah! I'm scared! Off Course I'm scared! NOW, I'm scared of everything!"

Alison sighed. – "Em…"

Emily.- "You can do that again, Ali! Never! I can't lose you! I CAN'T! I won't survive and that's your fault! You made me love you! You made me let you in, you became my entire world and then you continue freakin dying in my arms!"

Alison cupped Emily's face with her hands and kissed her in the lips, it was a soft kiss on the lips; warm enough to calm down Emily's crying…

Alison said as she looked her into the eyes and leaned their front-head together. – "Em, life is made up of choices… yes or no, in or out, up or down… and there are the choices that matter: to love or hate, to be a hero or to be a coward, to fight or to give in… to live or die, that's the important choice but it's not always in our hands to make the call, mermaid… I'll say it to make sure you hear me… I will always put your life and the life of the boys before mine because I don't want anything to harm my family, nothing even getting close, you're all that matters to me…"

Emily sighed. – "Ali… why it has to suck so much sometimes, has to hurt so bad, why we can't just have a happily ever after… calm, happy… it's all I want…"

Alison. – "Em, life is not perfect, it has its ups and down, the thing we gotta try to remember is that it can turn on a dime…" (She grabbed Emily's hands and squeezed them with a lovely touch) "That's what make us alive, when it hurts so much that you can't breathe, that's how we survive… we're survivors Em, we will always survive and you have to believe that no matter what, we're gonna to make it always…"

Emily sighed and gave to her wife a weak smile, she hugged the blonde very tight and taking a deep breath on her vanilla aroma, Alison was right, she had to be strong and now more than ever as this new threat looked like it would not leave any soon…

(In an apartment on Philly)

*** Music background: Lawless – Diminuendo feat. Britt Warner***

Two persons playing chess…

A person. – "So what will be your next move? Still playing with the pawns?"

A person with a huge devious grin on her face. – "No…" (She moved her bishop and made checkmate, this person happily pushed the queen lied down on the chess board) "Now, it's time to see if our royal Queen has the Grace to make it through the game…" (Devious smirk) "Checkmate"

The other person replied. – "And what do you've in mind…?"

A person smirked. – "The law of affinity refers to unlikely compositions forming a bond through a purely chemical reaction. … But even the strongest bonds have their limits. And when they are broken…" (Smirks) "Well, who know if they can bond together ever again…"

The other person smirked too and both were sharing devious smirks. The person who made checkmate took off from her pants a phone and started to type it…

Anonymous text sent to detective Tanner. -

"They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but in this case it seems like there's only three letters to adequately describe this picture: OMG!"

The person sent the text with an attached picture with it…

The person that sent the text, she smirked. – "Nothing says April like a brand new war…" (Smirks) "Don't you think?"

The other person smirked and said. – "Yeah I do… care to share any detail of this new move?"

A person smirked with a devious smile. – "Just know that lucky for us, Alison's road to sanity leads straight through hell and betrayals…"

Both people laughed with devious smiles.

They say life is full of surprises, that our dreams really can come true. Then again, so can our nightmares; all dreamers wake up and new problems are born; any time the rules change and the girls don't know how they'll change them; they take risks because the payoff can be so great but better watch out girls and put on your better shoes; trouble's moving in Rosewood and It's going to be hard to dance your way out of this one…

Next: Chapter 55 – All eyes on Me